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Henrietta Rae

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Rae began formally studying art at the age of thirteen, being educated at the Queen Square School of Art,
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at least five times before eventually gaining a seven-year scholarship. Her teachers there included Sir
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The Making of Women Artists in Victorian England: The education and careers of six professionals
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Birth certificate gives date of birth as 30 December 1856. Other sources give a later year.
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Victorian Urban Settings: Essays on the Nineteenth-Century City and Its Contexts
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Rae specialised in classical, allegorical and literary subjects. Her painting
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Critical Voices: Women and Art Criticism in Britain 1880–1905
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In 1884 she married painter and fellow Royal Academy student
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Rae and Normand travelled to Paris in 1890 to study at the
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The Holland Park Circle: Artists and Victorian Society
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Hammersmith
Ernest Normand
Victorian era
The Lady with the Lamp
Florence Nightingale
Scutari
Hammersmith
London
née
Felix Mendelssohn
Heatherley's School of Art
British Museum
Royal Academy of Arts
Lawrence Alma-Tadema
Frank Dicksee
William Powell Frith

Hylas
Ernest Normand
Holland Park
Leighton
Millais
Prinsep
Watts
Académie Julian
Jules Joseph Lefebvre
Jean-Joseph Benjamin-Constant
Upper Norwood
exhibited

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